Vera Jane Cook is an award-winning hybrid author of southern, and women's Fiction. Her newest release is Faith Among Friends.
Her first novel, Dancing Backward In Paradise, won an Eric Hoffer Award for publishing excellence and an Indie Excellence Award for notable new fiction. The Story of Sassy Sweetwater and Dancing Backward in Paradise received 5 Star ForeWord Clarion Reviews, and The Story of Sassy Sweetwater was named a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.
She has written the series The Fourniers and The Darlings. Marybeth, Hollister & Jane is the first book in her next series, A Callicoon Murder Mystery. They will be published over the next two years. She is going to be publishing a new historical fiction series in 2026, The Perfect Heart.
Under her pen name, Olivia Hardy Ray, Ms. Cook writes fantasy and science fiction. She has published five novels in those genres. and under her pen name, she has written the Salem Witch series and the Fox Hollow Road Abduction series.
As Olivia Hardy Ray, her title Nobody's Road will get a sequel, (Pindar Corners) and she will add one last book to her Salem Witch series, The Priests of Ludon.
Her favorite things? Fiction, wine, great food with spice, country walks, music, music, music, dogs, cats, elephants and horses, and people who think first and talk later.
Vera Jane Cook is an award-winning hybrid author of southern, and women's Fiction. Her newest release is Faith Among Friends.
Her first novel, Dancing Backward In Paradise, won an Eric Hoffer Award for publishing excellence and an Indie Excellence Award for notable new fiction. The Story of Sassy Sweetwater and Dancing Backward in Paradise received 5 Star ForeWord Clarion Reviews, and The Story of Sassy Sweetwater was named a finalist for the...
What Your Friends Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You - But it Just Might Haunt You.
As five old friends reunite in a familiar old hang-out forty years after they first met secrets are revealed, old wounds resurface and chilling lies reopen resentments that still leave a chill between them. The startling torments of youth haunt the present with a...
The Darlings are drowning in illusions within the serenity and tranquility of a small southern town. Secrets shatter the everyday world of Deborah Darling as the truth evades her. Deception, revenge, and the peculiarities of sexuality lead to the shattering of life's most precious bonds. Behind the...
Who wins, and who loses when the truth lies bare? When the entrapment of convention erodes the truth and the lies so boldly told are revealed, the shocking tale is told. The Darling family struggles with truth and identity, as well as the consequences of their actions. But happy endings just might be possible. When love falls into place and the...
My newest release, Faith Among Friends, is a novel I wrote about fifteen years ago. I'm not sure why I never published it. I think it hits too close to home. Not verbatim, but there were so many inconsistencies in my youth, my friendships, betrayals I'd rather forget. There's also a deep longing to return, to old friends, to the arrogance of youth ... to all those ridiculous broken hearts. The book makes me very nostalgic. That's why music is so important in the book, important to my...
